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Sources for really nice looking trees?
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 4:16 am
by Extra Crispy
I have a bit of birthday cash to spend and have decided to upgrade my 6mm trees. I'm in the midst of doing the same for my 15mm armies.
The GHQ trees leave me cold. I've got couple dozen from the packs I ordered in 15mm that will do double duty, but I'm looking for sources for good trees suitable for use in 1/285.
Woodland scenics and GHQ don't really float my boat.
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 4:29 am
by Extra Crispy
I did an experiment by flocking some left over plywood bases, then drilling holes to make 6mm forest bases. The trees are not fixed so can be moved around to accommodate troop stands or micro armor: You can even see some empty holes where you could move a tree out of the way at center, bottom.
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:19 am
by Extra Crispy
They're okay. And for 8 cents each a good value. But viewed from the side...they are 3 disks of foliage on a spike so a tad silly looking. Luckily I always look down from above
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:00 pm
by Waddell
The best trees I've ever seen for gaming or model railroading were made from roots. There's a video lurking somewhere on YouTube where they dig up tree roots (the small ones!), dry them then use them to make tree trunks and various shrubs. I haven't tried this but it doesn't look any harder than the other options.
I found the video in doing a web search for wargaming terrain to get access to the GHQ Terrain Maker video (also present on YouTube).
Trees
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 6:34 pm
by paul
Mark,
What trees are you using?
Paul
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 7:22 pm
by Extra Crispy
I'm currently shopping for trees. I just ordered a couple different packs from Scenic Express and they should be here in a couple days.
The trees in the pictures above are off Ebay. I bought a bag of 100 for about $8. They are all identical, and viewed side-on you can see there are three disks of branches with spaces in between, like this:
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En masse and from a gaming angle though, they look okay.
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 2:13 am
by paul
Mark,
What did you search for and I will look them up?
Regards,
Paul
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 11:04 am
by Extra Crispy
On Ebay search for this:
00 Model Tree Train Railroad Building Street Scale N Z
You should get a link to a bag of 100 such trees for $8.50. I need to order another few bags myself, in fact.
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 11:06 am
by Extra Crispy
Ha ha ha ha.
I had put rows of X's to denote where the branches were and I think the forum censored that.
Hey baby, wanna see some really hot tree on tree action?
Oh well...
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:04 am
by John Secker
This forum censors everything. I have known 85 year old maiden aunts who were less sensitive than this forum.
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2015 6:40 pm
by Donald M. Scheef
Since this is a forum for general audiences, including minors, there has to be some process for limiting offensive terms. The censoring program used by this forum is a non-intelligent filter. It looks for pre-set letter sequences that (might) have s*xual or scatological connotations and cuts any word containing them. Unfortunately, it also catches up many innocent terms. Thus, we have to be careful with terms such as Guadalcan*l, HMS Ess*x, etc. I have never figured out why the name of a 1930's French aircraft manufacturer will never appear without replacing vowels with *s.
It's not worth getting angry; just learn to live with it and use alternate symbols to avoid annoying cuts.
Don S.